Psychotherapy for body-mind integration Her colleagues describe her as "deeply gentle, creative, and gifted."
Jenny Epstein Kessem, MA, LPC, BC-DMT is a psychotherapist with 20 years of clinical experience in mindfulness and body-centered therapy. One of her great passions is to embrace the paradox of radically accepting ourselves as we are right now, while also committing to change. Clients have said she is a therapist "who really gets it."
08/26/2025
Two new Relational Unmasking groups starting in September, one in person and one online. These well-loved support groups support exploration of authenticity for adults who have masked and are interested in being more themselves. Neurodiversity affirming! Thank you for spreading the word.
03/20/2025
If it's more important to be right than to be a team, your relationship will not win.
Don’t approach your fights like you’re litigating a case. Even when you disagree, you and your partner are on the same side. You win when your partner wins and vice versa.
Wave the flag of friendliness in your arguments. Use humor, aim for a win-win solution, and relieve your partner immediately if you notice you’ve hurt them.
12/24/2024
Relational Unmasking Groups for Neurodivergent/ Questioning/ Autistic/ ADHD adults starting in January!
ON-LINE all genders adults group
Wednesdays 4p-5:30
Jan 22 - Feb 26 with Jenny Epstein Kessem
IN-PERSON women and gender non-conforming adults group
Fridays 4:00 - 5:30
Jan 17 - Feb 21 with Bianca
Neurodiversity Community Center
100 W Cleveland St, Lafayette, CO 80026
$450-300 sliding scale for 6-week series, we are aiming to close registration by Jan 10
12/08/2024
Attending to needs of limbic brain. Very simple words best. Do not defend yourself in this scenario, it will not go well because it is the wrong timing.
When an emotional state remains unaltered for a significant period of time, it enters into long-term memory.
If partners want to prevent negative long-term memories from forming, rapid repair is critical. Tending to a partner’s pain quickly is far more important than finding the “right words” to say sorry. Apologies don’t have to be eloquent. They just need to be said.
12/08/2024
Ginkgo leaves in fall. How beautiful grief and loss can be.
09/21/2024
I love creative humans.
08/04/2024
Neurodiversity is everywhere! Thanks for spreading the word about this group, a safe place for late identified adults to explore what neurodivergent masking is, and what unmasking feels like in a group setting.
Now accepting members for two groups, each a 4 week series:
-Virtual group Wednesdays at 4p, beginning September 4th.
-In-person group in Lafayette, Fridays at 4p, beginning September 6th.
07/28/2024
07/23/2024
Want to learn about mushrooms? Join us for a special class in mushroom foraging and immersive states in nature. This Saturday July 27, 9a-4p on private land at 10 K feet elevation.
Flier in the comments.
06/15/2024
Neurodiversity is everywhere! Thanks for spreading the word about this group, a safe place for late identified adults to explore what neurodivergent masking is, and what unmasking feels like in a group setting.
Now accepting members for two groups, each a 6 week series:
-Virtual group Wednesdays at 9a, beginning immediately
-In-person group in Lafayette, Wednesdays at 4p beginning July 10th.
06/11/2024
So helpful.
When partners are apart, they will quickly return to their default arousal biases. This can make reunions difficult.
High-arousal partners and low-arousal partners can have vastly different energies upon reuniting, which can cause them to clash, leading to a cascade of perceived threats and amplification of negative emotions.
Normalize this problem and teach partners about the importance of transitioning so they don’t expect each other to rapidly move up or down energetically.
The easiest way to facilitate a smooth transition is to greet each other with a sustained embrace whenever they return home to each other. They should hold this embrace until they both completely relax.
05/19/2024
What is neurodivergent masking?
Masking as a defense March 7, 2024 Jenny Kessem What is neurodivergent masking and how do you know when it’s happening?My husband likes to tease me that I’m the Mayor of Boulder. This is because I am a natural networker. I like making connections. When I get into a large group, I go into what we...
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One of my great passions is to embrace the paradox of accepting ourselves as we are right now, while also committing to change. So while you may be seeking therapy to get rid of some problem, I may encourage you to accept that problem, listen to it, and even to notice how it is taking care of you. Ironically, this is how problems seem to eventually go.
When I sit with you, I offer my wild and wide acceptance, my calm presence, my sense of humor, and what I have gathered from two decades of clinical experience. Clients have said I am a therapist "who really gets it."
I love helping people inhabit their bodies. An embodied person is a person able to find what she wants, able to regulate himself, and able to experience deep pleasure. One doorway into this is with eating. Our bodies need to eat, and how we eat food can point to how we deal with nourishment in general. It is rich to eat mindfully and address what comes up when we slow down enough to notice How We Eat.
We suffer when we experience an extreme state and hunker down there. Instead, that extreme experience can be an opportunity to widen perspective and increase tolerance for a range of experiences. I love highlighting these opportunities and supporting clients with specific skills to work with stuckness.
In my own life, I have found myself in a myriad of extremes. I wanted to change the world but was unable to look at myself. My lifestyle was not accepted in the mainstream but I still wanted to fit in. As I have learned to accept and love the unwanted parts of myself, I have found more and more peace. There's nothing I love more than sharing with others the fruits of this life experience.
Training and Experience
Jenny Epstein Kessem, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, ACS is a licensed psychotherapist with two decades of clinical experience in mindfulness and body-centered therapy. She is a Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist and an Approved Clinical Supervisor. She has worked with diverse people from many walks of life, and includes in her work a perspective that comes from working intimately with people from many different worlds. She works with people who are seeking personal growth and going through life changes. She has worked with torture survivors who are seeking asylum, people with addictions and eating issues of all kinds, adolescents court-ordered for treatment, survivors of sexual abuse, and people with severe mental illnesses. Jenny trained as a peer counselor before getting a Masters in Somatic Psychology at Naropa University. She has studied Trauma Resolution with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Working with Groups as Living Systems with Mukara Meredith and Matrixworks, the Hakomi Method of Psychotherapy with Phil DelPrince and Melissa Grace, the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy with Stan Tatkin, and neuropsychology with Allan Schore. She is former adjunct faculty at Naropa's Graduate School of Psychology. She has special training and is credentialed in the skill of supervision of psychotherapists.
